Position summary

The Manager owns engineering capacity and the capability to do the work.

This seat answers for whether the engineering function can carry the pipeline: headcount against it, the cost of running the function, hiring, and the promotion decisions that turn engineers into reviewers.

It also owns the capability plan: which skills the function needs, and the training and tool investment behind them. The estimating and design method itself stays with Senior and Principal Engineer. This seat funds and staffs the standard; it does not write it.

It shares ownership of the solution methodology and the technology roadmap with the Manager, Solutions Engineering: which technology classes and third-party partners the department can offer, and the analysis practice behind the concepts. The two seats hold it together, so what we can design and what we can price stay the same list.
Character qualifications

Innovation - We create a culture of relentless improvement of solutions and processes to make every day better.

Integrity - We are open, honest, and committed to giving the straight story every time.

Service - We serve our clients, families, communities, and most importantly our people who are empowered and safe in making decisions and taking actions that dare to make us better.

Ownership - We take full, personal, individual responsibility for our actions and our work.

Essential duties & responsibilities

M • People, capacity and money
• Own the capacity plan for the function: what the pipeline requires, what can be staffed, and the gap between them.
• Own the function budget and its share of the cost of pursuit, and report both against plan.
• Own hiring for the function: open the reqs, set the bands, and make the selection.
• Make the promotion decision at the level gate, on the method review the Principal Engineer runs.
• Own the engineering capability plan: the skills the function needs, the training and tool investment behind it. The estimating and design method itself stays with Senior and Principal Engineer.
• Own the solution methodology and the technology roadmap: which technology classes and third-party partners the department can offer, and the analysis practice behind the concepts. Technical authority over a given concept stays with Principal Engineer.

Contributes to
• Department strategy, organisation and toolchain investment

Reviews and approves

✓Line management, performance and pay

Working with the rest of the team
PartnerThey bringYou keepManager, Solutions EngineeringThe design and analysis side of the methodology and the roadmap, held jointly with this seatThe estimating side of the samePrincipal EngineerThe method review and the technical standardThe promotion decision that follows it, and the investment behind the standardSupervisor, Applications EngineeringDay-to-day management of the engineersHeadcount, bands and the capability planOffering ManagerWhat the queue needs, week to weekHow much engineering capacity existsManager, Proposal DevelopmentProposal capacity and the proposal standardEngineering capacity and capabilityDirector, Applications EngineeringPriorities and approvalThe function's ability to deliver against them
Qualifications

Education and experience
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 12+ years in engineering organisations, including budget and headcount ownership.
• Required: has built a hiring plan against a pipeline and been held to it.
• Required: has run a promotion process with a written technical standard behind it.
• Preferred, not required: material handling or capital-equipment experience.
Skills

Language. Presents capacity, capability and hiring cases to senior management, and writes the bands the function hires against. Mathematical. Capacity modelling, utilization, cost of engineering hours against order intake. Reasoning. Distinguishes a capacity problem from a method problem, and does not solve one with the other.
Travel

Travel to customer offices, sites and other Fives entities as required, typically under 20%.
Progression

Advancement to Director, Applications Engineering.
Physical demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus. Travel via automobile and/or commercial airline to customer offices for meetings, vendor's plants, and job site to coordinate the conveyors or equipment with the building and installers.
Work environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, risk of electrical shock, and risk of radiation. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, unless performing work in shop or field conditions.